Jewellery-making programme launched for Udhampur women

The Government of India has launched its first-ever 13-day custom-free jewellery-making programme in Kuh Nallah village, located in Ramnagar tehsil of Udhampur district.

Organized by SBI-RSETI (State Bank of India - Rural Self Employment Training Institutes), the initiative is aimed at empowering local women, providing them with the necessary skills to create their own jewellery and start small businesses.

On the launch of this programme, domain skill trainer Preeti Chowhan shared, “As many as 35 women, who are associated with the Umeed initiative, have enrolled in this programme. This is a 13-day course after which they will get a certificate and can even open their shops. Loans will also be provided to them if they need it.”

RSETI is providing free training to women in tailoring and other occupational courses to make them self-reliant in Rajouri.

Speaking to mediapersons RSETI Director Raman Sharma said, “We trained 353 candidates last year in different activities. We mobilised a few candidates ourselves and a few came through NRLM and the remaining are from the Khadi village board. For 2024-25, MoRD has given us a target of 1000 candidates, for which we have started batches as per plan. One batch of dairy farming has just concluded. Candidates were sponsored by NRLM. Candidates of the self-help group train with us.”

“Another batch is of women tailoring. Till now, we have trained three batches consisting of a total of 70 people. The girls are already motivated,” he added.

RSETI, an initiative of the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), has dedicated infrastructure in each district of the country to impart training and skill upgradation of rural youth geared towards entrepreneurship development.